Why Keep a Weight Loss Tracker…?

Simple, a food diary helps you to plan what you’ll eat, whether for the day or the week ahead.

Trust us, without one you won’t have a clue what to eat. Failing to plan is planning to fail!

A weight loss tracker also enables you to record everything you eat. Any problems along the way can often be tracked back to a particular meal, a bad day or bad few days and adjustments can be made to your programme.

A weight loss tracker also helps you to identify your eating habits and patterns.

I’ve had countless conversations with clients who’ve had a bad week and not lost any weight or put on a pound or two.

If they’ve kept an honest record of their food and drink intake it’s easy to see where they’ve gone wrong and to fix it.

If they’re relying on memeory…can you remember what you ate yesterday, last weekend?

Can you remember what time you ate, how many meals you had, how many glasses of water you drank, how you felt when you ate?

Probably not, I can’t!

In our experience, practically all the clients we’ve worked with have kept a diary. Intermittently in some cases, but they get there in the end with a bit of nagging.

However, most of them stop once they’re down to their target weight. Why is that?

The discipline of maintaining your new weight, your new eating habits is the same as when you’re losing weight.

Now, we’re not saying that you have to keep a food diary forever. Once you’re at your target weight, we would suggest you keep one for at least a month.

…And so on. Also include snacks, drinks, extras like alcoholic drinks and other junk foods. This tracking will help you to understand what you are consuming. So, don’t forget track things that you are eating.

Then make sure you build a list of foods that only help in weight loss. After doing this, eat what’s in your food diary for the day…and only what’s in your diary!

Be disciplined and do not deviate. A common problem for people who’ve lost weight is slipping back into old eating habits and self-destructive patterns.

What Could Happen If You Ditch Your Tracking Diary?

We had a client called Karen who had a passion for pastries mid-morning with a coffee. She had a bakers near to her office. She weaned herself off them when losing weight and kept a food diary.

She ditched her weight loss tracker when she hit her target weight and within days was back on the coffee and pastries!

You’re taking responsibility by writing down what you’ll eat. You’re taking responsibility and being accountable.

Feeling tempted by something naughty? Refer to your plan and eat only what you’ve planned to eat.

It’s easy to eat healthily when you’re happy and relaxed. It’s much harder when you’re busy and stressed. A hectic day at the office, ferrying the kids to school and after school activities…

You can cope with missed meals and no time to pop out and get a salad at lunchtime if you plan ahead. Ask yourself:

Where will I be?

What will I have time to eat?

What will I feel like eating?

Will I get stuck in traffic? A meeting?

Will I have time to go out and get something or do I need to take something with me?